People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when and for… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet) — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
It (the computer) is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Because people don't understand what computing is about, they think they have it in the iPhone, and that illusion is as bad… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
It [the computer] is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
When I first got to Apple, which was in '84, the Mac was already out, and 'Newsweek' contacted me and asked me… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose. That language was Joss, which… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Steve was perfectly aware of the Dynabook. That was one of the reasons he wanted me to come to Apple. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at… — Alan Kay Copy Share
As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984. — Alan Kay Copy Share
When I first prepared this particular talk... I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that… — Alan Kay Copy Share
Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold… — Alan Kay Copy Share
Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when and for what. — Alan Kay Copy Share
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing… — Alan Kay Copy Share
It's hard to change information in books, but if we have everything online, then a somewhat untrustworthy group of people controlling the thing -… — Alan Kay Copy Share
The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure. — Alan Kay Copy Share
I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns… — Alan Kay Copy Share
Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet) — Alan Kay Copy Share
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